Tenille McDermott
@tenille.bsky.social
Bookseller. PhD candidate in creative writing. Critical AI, LLMs and time perception. Co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social. Co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social. She/her.
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How does a book come into being? What does the creative process entail? How do you build a writing life?
Edits & Annotations is a podcast for readers, writers and storytellers of all kinds. The season one trailer is available now, and episode one drops this Tuesday!
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Edits & Annotations is a podcast for readers, writers and storytellers of all kinds. The season one trailer is available now, and episode one drops this Tuesday!
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Edits & Annotations
A podcast from the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Season 1 coming early 2025!
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We have a podcast! Join Mia, @bethanykeats.bsky.social and me as we chat with some brilliant writers about their work!
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Here it is! My first article in library and information science (i.e. my day job)! It was an absolute pleasure writing with @jaymam.bsky.social and Tove Lemberget, and I really do think green open access is a powerful way of making research accessible!
doi.org/10.1177/0340...
doi.org/10.1177/0340...
Unlocking the repository: A strategy for increasing the uptake of green open access - Jayshree Mamtora, Wayne Bradshaw, Tove Lemberget, 2025
This article uses a recent retroactive open access project undertaken by an Australian university library to reframe attitudes and approaches to author self-arc...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Here it is! My first article in library and information science (i.e. my day job)! It was an absolute pleasure writing with @jaymam.bsky.social and Tove Lemberget, and I really do think green open access is a powerful way of making research accessible!
doi.org/10.1177/0340...
doi.org/10.1177/0340...
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This might be the last hurrah for my book, as the paperback is now out! I had absolutely no luck getting it reviewed anywhere, so here is my last ditch attempt to market my odd book about Max Stirner, modernism and manifestos:
bloomsbury.com/au/ego-made-ma…doi.org/10.5040/9798...02
bloomsbury.com/au/ego-made-ma…doi.org/10.5040/9798...02
The Ego Made Manifest
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May 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This might be the last hurrah for my book, as the paperback is now out! I had absolutely no luck getting it reviewed anywhere, so here is my last ditch attempt to market my odd book about Max Stirner, modernism and manifestos:
bloomsbury.com/au/ego-made-ma…doi.org/10.5040/9798...02
bloomsbury.com/au/ego-made-ma…doi.org/10.5040/9798...02
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The Australian première of Existence is Resistance with @louisarmand.bsky.social in the heart of the nation's cultural scene (i.e. Townsville, northern Queensland), courtesy of @sudojournal.bsky.social with support from FALS and Mary Who? Bookshop
May 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Australian première of Existence is Resistance with @louisarmand.bsky.social in the heart of the nation's cultural scene (i.e. Townsville, northern Queensland), courtesy of @sudojournal.bsky.social with support from FALS and Mary Who? Bookshop
Essential reading.
In case you missed it: Jade Croft and I wrote a piece on our experiences of studying the humanities in regional Australia and how they are at the pointy end of a long, international decline in the humanities in the English-speaking world
doi.org/10.56449/146...
doi.org/10.56449/146...
Situating Narratives of Decline: Surveying the Literature of Crisis from a Regional Humanities Student Perspective – AHR
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April 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Essential reading.
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You can take the girl out of radio but you can't stop her making a podcast! Season 1 of @editsannotations.bsky.social was launched this weekend at the Townsville Festival of Stories 🎉
Many thanks to my co-hosts @tenille.bsky.social & Mia-Francesca Jones
Listen now: podfollow.com/editsannotat...
Many thanks to my co-hosts @tenille.bsky.social & Mia-Francesca Jones
Listen now: podfollow.com/editsannotat...
Edits & Annotations
A podcast from the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Season 1 now releasing!
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March 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You can take the girl out of radio but you can't stop her making a podcast! Season 1 of @editsannotations.bsky.social was launched this weekend at the Townsville Festival of Stories 🎉
Many thanks to my co-hosts @tenille.bsky.social & Mia-Francesca Jones
Listen now: podfollow.com/editsannotat...
Many thanks to my co-hosts @tenille.bsky.social & Mia-Francesca Jones
Listen now: podfollow.com/editsannotat...
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Probably the hardest thing I've ever written, but far from my best writing. Everyone is to blame. There are no easy solutions. Generations of young people will pay the price for our failures. Jade's a trooper.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Probably the hardest thing I've ever written, but far from my best writing. Everyone is to blame. There are no easy solutions. Generations of young people will pay the price for our failures. Jade's a trooper.
australianhumanitiesreview.org/2025/02/20/sit…
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australianhumanitiesreview.org/2025/02/20/sit…
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In episode 5, Bethany speaks to Alli Parker and Tania Blanchard in conversation about their approaches to novelising family stories, including the challenge of telling personal stories to a public audience.
https://buff.ly/4i5nIGJ
https://buff.ly/4i5nIGJ
Edits & Annotations: 5. Alli Parker & Tania Blanchard: On Writing from Family Memories
Alli Parker is the author of At the Foot of the Cherry Tree and Tania Blanchard is the author of six novels, The Girl from Munich, Suitcase of Dreams, Letters from Berlin, Daughter of Calabria/Echo...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In episode 5, Bethany speaks to Alli Parker and Tania Blanchard in conversation about their approaches to novelising family stories, including the challenge of telling personal stories to a public audience.
https://buff.ly/4i5nIGJ
https://buff.ly/4i5nIGJ
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In this episode, Melanie Saward shares her knowledge of the industry, what it means to be a writer online today, finding literary community, the co-writing process, and hopping from one genre to another.
Edits & Annotations: 4. Melanie Saward: On Genre-Hopping: From Romance to YA
Melanie Saward is a proud Bigambul and Wakka Wakka woman and a writer, editor, academic and 'publishing all rounder'. Her debut novelBurnwas published in 2023 and her first romantic comedy...
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February 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In this episode, Melanie Saward shares her knowledge of the industry, what it means to be a writer online today, finding literary community, the co-writing process, and hopping from one genre to another.
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In this special feature episode, Tenille speaks with Alice Robinson and Kate Mildenhall about the related themes across their work: the environment, time, motherhood, and where technology may take us.
Edits & Annotations: 3. Alice Robinson and Kate Mildenhall: On Time and Technology
In this special feature episode, Tenille speaks with Alice Robinson (Anchor Point, The Glad Shout, If You Go) and Kate Mildenhall (Skylarking, The Mother Fault, The Hummingbird Effect) about the re...
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February 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In this special feature episode, Tenille speaks with Alice Robinson and Kate Mildenhall about the related themes across their work: the environment, time, motherhood, and where technology may take us.
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In our second episode, Bethany chats with Hannah Kent about finding stories in the archives and the ethical considerations when it comes to speculating someone else’s story.
Edits & Annotations: 2. Hannah Kent: On Speculations and Archives
Hannah Kent is the author of three novels: Burial Rites, The Good People and Devotion. She also wrote the screenplay for the psychological thriller, Run Rabbit Run. She chats to Bethany about fin...
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February 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In our second episode, Bethany chats with Hannah Kent about finding stories in the archives and the ethical considerations when it comes to speculating someone else’s story.
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Join Mia in episode 1 as she speaks with writer and artist Manisha Anjali about Naag Mountain, a book born from a dream.
Edits & Annotations: 1. Manisha Anjali: On Writing from Dreams
Naag Mountain is a book born from a dream. In this episode, writer and artist Manisha Anjali describes the craft of writing from the subconscious to explore cultural identity and hidden histories. ...
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February 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Join Mia in episode 1 as she speaks with writer and artist Manisha Anjali about Naag Mountain, a book born from a dream.
We have a podcast! Join Mia, @bethanykeats.bsky.social and me as we chat with some brilliant writers about their work!
How does a book come into being? What does the creative process entail? How do you build a writing life?
Edits & Annotations is a podcast for readers, writers and storytellers of all kinds. The season one trailer is available now, and episode one drops this Tuesday!
podfollow.com/editsannotat...
Edits & Annotations is a podcast for readers, writers and storytellers of all kinds. The season one trailer is available now, and episode one drops this Tuesday!
podfollow.com/editsannotat...
Edits & Annotations
A podcast from the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. Season 1 coming early 2025!
podfollow.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:49 AM
We have a podcast! Join Mia, @bethanykeats.bsky.social and me as we chat with some brilliant writers about their work!
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Sūdō 2024 is here 🙌
Many thanks to my outstanding co-editor @tenille.bsky.social and our fabulous contributors from around Australia and the world.
Grab a beverage, pull up a chair, and sit back with Volume 5 of Sūdō, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Many thanks to my outstanding co-editor @tenille.bsky.social and our fabulous contributors from around Australia and the world.
Grab a beverage, pull up a chair, and sit back with Volume 5 of Sūdō, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Our 2024 volume, "Eras," is now available for your reading pleasure! Thank you to all of our contributors for trusting us with your brilliant pieces - it's been such a joy to work on this issue. Read the complete volume here: sudojournal.com/eras
Eras
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December 31, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Sūdō 2024 is here 🙌
Many thanks to my outstanding co-editor @tenille.bsky.social and our fabulous contributors from around Australia and the world.
Grab a beverage, pull up a chair, and sit back with Volume 5 of Sūdō, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
Many thanks to my outstanding co-editor @tenille.bsky.social and our fabulous contributors from around Australia and the world.
Grab a beverage, pull up a chair, and sit back with Volume 5 of Sūdō, "Eras": sudojournal.com/eras
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very honored to tell you my short story "hit immunity" is on this!! thank you @sudojournal.bsky.social for having me 🩷 sudojournal.com/latest-issue/
Latest Issue
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December 31, 2024 at 6:30 AM
very honored to tell you my short story "hit immunity" is on this!! thank you @sudojournal.bsky.social for having me 🩷 sudojournal.com/latest-issue/
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Somehow, and despite my best efforts to detonate the journal after three issues (my plan from the outset) Sūdō Journal keeps on keeping on! Congratulations @tenille.bsky.social and @bethanykeats.bsky.social on the release of volume 5!
Our 2024 volume, "Eras," is now available for your reading pleasure! Thank you to all of our contributors for trusting us with your brilliant pieces - it's been such a joy to work on this issue. Read the complete volume here: sudojournal.com/eras
Eras
Visit the post for more.
sudojournal.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Somehow, and despite my best efforts to detonate the journal after three issues (my plan from the outset) Sūdō Journal keeps on keeping on! Congratulations @tenille.bsky.social and @bethanykeats.bsky.social on the release of volume 5!
It's here!
Huge thanks to my intrepid co-editor @bethanykeats.bsky.social - this is the fifth volume of Sūdō Journal, but our first as editors, and it's been brilliant to work with you and all of our wonderful contributors!
Huge thanks to my intrepid co-editor @bethanykeats.bsky.social - this is the fifth volume of Sūdō Journal, but our first as editors, and it's been brilliant to work with you and all of our wonderful contributors!
Our 2024 volume, "Eras," is now available for your reading pleasure! Thank you to all of our contributors for trusting us with your brilliant pieces - it's been such a joy to work on this issue. Read the complete volume here: sudojournal.com/eras
Eras
Visit the post for more.
sudojournal.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:48 AM
It's here!
Huge thanks to my intrepid co-editor @bethanykeats.bsky.social - this is the fifth volume of Sūdō Journal, but our first as editors, and it's been brilliant to work with you and all of our wonderful contributors!
Huge thanks to my intrepid co-editor @bethanykeats.bsky.social - this is the fifth volume of Sūdō Journal, but our first as editors, and it's been brilliant to work with you and all of our wonderful contributors!
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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January 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it.
The law only ever serves capital.
The law only ever serves capital.
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Thank you so much for including me in the list! Wow! Here's the review in @jcucase.bsky.social you missed it (see what I did there?):
aph.org.au/2024/04/book-r…
aph.org.au/2024/04/book-r…
December 17, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Thank you so much for including me in the list! Wow! Here's the review in @jcucase.bsky.social you missed it (see what I did there?):
aph.org.au/2024/04/book-r…
aph.org.au/2024/04/book-r…
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Suppose I had better do the shameless self-promotion bit on this one, too, since I have opened it. In case you missed it (months ago), this is (somehow) the second-most read article in the last 12 months in JAS? doi.org/10.1080/1444...
Misapprehensions of a Caustic Eye: A. D. Hope and the Failure of Angry Penguins as a Modernist Literary Movement
This article reconsiders A. D. Hope’s cutting appraisal of the group of young poets and artists from the University of Adelaide who have come to be known colloquially as “the Angry Penguins”. Setti...
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November 7, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Suppose I had better do the shameless self-promotion bit on this one, too, since I have opened it. In case you missed it (months ago), this is (somehow) the second-most read article in the last 12 months in JAS? doi.org/10.1080/1444...
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Containing that great Flanagan line "labels are for jam jars". And also: good on him! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Richard Flanagan wins Baillie Gifford prize but rejects £50,000 over sponsor’s fossil fuel ties
Australian author says he will not accept prize money until fund manager reduces its fossil fuel investments
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Containing that great Flanagan line "labels are for jam jars". And also: good on him! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false
Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure
Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure
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Your daily reminder: ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not "know" anything: it smashes words together in plausible sounding way, but it does not have (and never will have) any ability to check whether something is true or false
Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure
Using it for anything beyond "re-word this headline" = failure
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What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work?
What's the offer?
$2,500 a book?
Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself
lithub.com/harpercollin...
What's the offer?
$2,500 a book?
Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself
lithub.com/harpercollin...
HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech.
On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…
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November 18, 2024 at 5:58 PM
What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work?
What's the offer?
$2,500 a book?
Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself
lithub.com/harpercollin...
What's the offer?
$2,500 a book?
Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself
lithub.com/harpercollin...
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Do we have enough OzLit people here to talk best books of the year? Hard to go past Kate Kruimink's Heartsease for me, or Kat Gibson's The Temperature?
November 18, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Do we have enough OzLit people here to talk best books of the year? Hard to go past Kate Kruimink's Heartsease for me, or Kat Gibson's The Temperature?